Jiff: A brand new Datetime library for Rust, from the author of ripgrep

Re:Jiff: A brand new Datetime library for Rust, from the aut... by Xylakant on Monday July 22, 2024 @02:14AM (#41031356)

The unlicense is considered problematic in various jurisdictions, among them Germany - under German law, you cannot relinquish certain rights that are associated with the author at all. Dedicating something to the public domain is not a valid concept here. This means the whole license could be declared invalid in court. Other jurisdictions may be similarly problematic- thus the fallback to MIT

There’s a stackoverflow post that discusses some of the issues https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1471...

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Re:Jiff: A brand new Datetime library for Rust, from the aut... by chrismorgan on Monday July 22, 2024 @02:28AM (#41031430)

My own summary and collection of information about the problems with the Unlicense: https://chrismorgan.info/blog/unlicense/

(I collected that mostly because I didn’t find all the relevant information in one place, or explanation of the reasonable alternatives.)

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Re:Jiff: A brand new Datetime library for Rust, from the aut... by Xylakant on Monday July 22, 2024 @04:04AM (#41031887)

That looks like a pretty comprehensive overview. I'll bookmark this for further reference :)

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Re:Jiff: A brand new Datetime library for Rust, from the aut... by treeshateorcs on Monday July 22, 2024 @06:34AM (#41032858)

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Re:Jiff: A brand new Datetime library for Rust, from the aut... by rsynnott on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:46AM (#41032520)

Never understood why anyone uses this one; it's just too potentially messy, and a permissive license like 0BSD provides the intended effect without the risk.

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Re:Jiff: A brand new Datetime library for Rust, from the aut... by burntsushi on Monday July 22, 2024 @06:57AM (#41032985)

I wrote down why I do it years ago: https://github.com/BurntSushi/notes/blob/master/2020-10-29_l...

You may not agree with me, which is fine, but you should now understand.

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Re:Jiff: A brand new Datetime library for Rust, from the aut... by Xylakant on Monday July 22, 2024 @08:30AM (#41033635)

Part of the indended effect is making a policical/societal point about the copyright system, something the 0BSD license does not do. I personally believe that legal documents are a bad place to make these points, but obviously people differ.

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